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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Motorola Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it<\/a> – I’m not the sort that would hack\/mod my phone — but, on principle, I’d like to reserve the option for something I’VE BOUGHT. Yet another step in the “you’re not really buying it, you’re just licensing it” business mentality.<\/li>\n
  2. The Madness of King Coal<\/a> – “Of course, no one seems to have quibbled with the 202 lives lost, just how much dollar value was placed upon them. Which, makes some sense, I suppose, when all you really care about is the bottom line.”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Motorola Droid X actually self-destructs if you try to mod it – I’m not the sort that would hack\/mod my phone — but, on principle, I’d like to reserve the option for something I’VE BOUGHT. Yet another step in … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 15-Jul-10 0800)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11099,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/10\/activated.html","url_meta":{"origin":17879,"position":0},"title":"Activated","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Apr-07 8:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not all hep with this mod music and all, but I enjoyed the Dresden Dolls \"Coin-Activated Boy\" video that BD linked to. \u00a0Almost as much as the \"flip side\"...","rel":"","context":"In "Music"","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-music"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/01\/the_city_down_b.html","url_meta":{"origin":17879,"position":1},"title":"The City Down Below","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Nov-05 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Fascinating story about an \"underground city\" that was set up in the UK during the Cold War to house the government in case of a nuclear war. 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